The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 171 Capture Gou Xi again
If Yu Yao didn't have the title of Yu Jin's descendant, to be honest, whether he could stand out under Liu Tai's men would still be a question.

There was no way, his personal force was lower than that of Liu Tai's four generals, and his command ability was suppressed by Zhou Ping for the first time.

But Yu Yao may also know his shortcomings, so he began to work hard on running the army.

After all, the most outstanding thing about his ancestor Yu Jin was his ability to train soldiers, and then Yu Yao met Liu Tai.

What about the "Book of Han" and "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", about the land equalization system, the government military system, the three major points of attention and the eight disciplines, all the orders that he thought were unbelievable. Liu Tai had implemented them one by one since he was in Taishan County.

By the time they arrived in Qingzhou, Liu Tai had basically built up the entire army system bit by bit.

The current Liu Tai army talks about will and discipline, which makes Yu Yao feel like he is being crushed.

Yu Yao thought about how ordinary he was. Even if he put all his efforts into it, he would never be able to reach Liu Tai's level.

Therefore, Yu Yaobian slightly adjusted his position and began to teach the soldiers corresponding military skills.

When these soldiers are well trained, they will be sent to the corresponding war department. This position is probably the instructor of the Forbidden Army.

However, Yu Yao's familiarity with military skill training gave Yu Yao a unique role in defending the city.

Because Liu Tai's army is divided into two types, one is the combat soldiers directly under Liu Tai, and the other is the government soldiers, and the combat soldiers are basically selected from the best soldiers.

The soldiers are divided into two categories. One is the ordinary war department, which is basically all handed over to Yu Yao to practice military skills.

The other type, after being trained in medicine, is assigned to a certain general as a soldier in a dedicated war department for more specialized training.

For example, the mission of Zhao An's War Department is to harass enemy lines and train more long-distance running. For example, the mission of Ge Xin's War Department is to break the situation, so relatively speaking, it requires more fighting and so on.

When conducting a city defense war, the general's war department will be sent to defend the city, and at the same time, it will be given the right to dispatch local soldiers.

Liu Tai knew very well that the soldiers had their own land, which was a good thing to increase the centripetal force of the soldiers.

But at the same time, it is also a constraint on the soldiers themselves.

If you completely follow the model of the Tang Dynasty's soldiers and directly dispatch your soldiers to participate in long-distance wars, then you must open up the spoils to the soldiers and allow the soldiers to slaughter the city and plunder, so as to obtain a large amount of additional wealth to make up for it.

But the war he wants to fight is mainly domestic. Such massacre of a city is very unnecessary in Liu Tai's opinion.

Under such circumstances, Liu Tai chose to limit his troops to the county. Even if they participated in assisting defense, they would only participate in local assisting defense.

This avoids the need for the soldiers to prepare for long-distance military service, and helping to defend the counties where they are located can help the soldiers to show their fighting will.

As for foreign wars, Liu Tai usually uses combat troops instead of government troops.

Because combat soldiers have higher pay than government soldiers, and at the same time, combat soldiers are also more outstanding in terms of national consciousness and military discipline.

Therefore, in the battle to defend the city, the selected generals were asked to lead the soldiers, and then local soldiers were recruited to assist in the defense, so as to maximize the advantages and disadvantages of this system.

In this process, how the army's defense system allows the soldiers to quickly integrate into the combat system, how to quickly improve the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the city defense battle, and how to let the soldiers have the willpower and organizational power of the soldiers have all become A test of the ability of the generals who defended the city.

Although the soldiers were simply used as cannon fodder, Liu Tai believed that these soldiers were willing to risk their lives in order to defend their local fields, but a truly capable general would definitely not be able to use these soldiers directly like this.

Yu Yao has been completing the training of Fu soldiers into combat soldiers all year round. Therefore, when Yu Yao conducts city defense battles in these cities with a large number of Fu soldiers, the experience accumulated in daily life is really put into use.

He began to dismantle some of the soldiers he brought over, and began to train the soldiers recruited from Taishan County.

If these soldiers say how much they want to fight for Liu Tai, it is definitely nonsense.

But if they can still grow a second crop of crops next year for the land they have already acquired, and their children in elementary school can study safely, or if the county needs to give them a special treat during the holidays, None of them can retreat.

Of course, the most important thing is that these soldiers can truly feel that since they entered Liu Tai's army, they have been truly treated as an individual. This is a treatment that is really difficult for them to enjoy in other places.

Therefore, these soldiers do not lack the willpower, but what they lack is the mastery of military skills!

In the past, they could safely train according to the assessment directions that Liu Tao needed, such as what to jump higher, what to run faster, how to be stronger, how to read, how to do arithmetic, how to archery, etc. Unless their family had inheritance, at most they could only Practice thrusting with a spear.

But now because he has Yu Yao, he naturally knows how to use these polished embryos and how to quickly master killing skills, such as arrow shooting, shield essence, and battlefield skills...

Yu Yao taught all kinds of military skills to these soldiers without hesitation, and also allowed some soldiers to form a new core team with the old and new, so that these soldiers would be more organized and disciplined.

In game terms, when Yu Yao is defending the city, he can quickly train a certain proportion of his soldiers into combat soldiers.

Therefore, for Yao, Gou Xi did not attack Xintai directly but chose to build weapons, which bought him more time, and this time allowed Yu Yao to quickly teach the soldiers to integrate into the defense system of the soldiers.

It can be said that both Yu Yao and Gou Xi are accumulating their own strength.

Perhaps we can only see the specific strength of both sides when both sides break out, but there is no such time.

Because Liu Tai had already searched all the way from the wheel tracks used to transport grain in Gou Xi, and when the distance between the two sides was about ten miles, Liu Tai did not let the troops attack directly, but let the troops eat cakes and drink water on the spot.

Liu Tai said, "Eat cake and rest, and launch an attack on the opponent in half an hour! Military history records the time."

The soldiers didn't talk nonsense. They had long been accustomed to the corresponding war mode after fighting with Liu Tai.

Therefore, every soldier took a bite of the big cake in his hand and drank the water in the bamboo tube to quickly restore his physical strength.

It has to be said that because of the existence of the ship, cooking equipment is more or less available, otherwise it would be unrealistic to even want to take a bite of the pie.

Of course, if there is no flatbread to eat, then you can only pour the heavily salted wheat flour into a bamboo tube and make it into a paste.

Although that kind of food is edible, in terms of taste, texture, and satiety, few soldiers want to eat this kind of military ration.

"My lord, why don't you wait until night?" Xi Jian, as Liu Tai's military adviser, couldn't help but said to Liu Tai.

“Our goal is to end this war as soon as possible, so we need to maximize the impact of the raid.

The target of our raid must be Gou Xi's camp. If Gou Xi wants to run away at night, I can't guarantee that I can see him clearly in the dark.

If we let him run away by then, the war here may drag on. "

Liu Tai explained to Xi Jian, "So we need to take certain risks!" "Thank you, Duke, for clearing up the confusion!" Xi Jian heard Liu Tai's words and nodded, "It seems that Cao Cao came from Lu Bu because of the dark sky. He escaped with his hands and became like the future King of Wei, so in order to resolve this battle, Gou Xi needs to be defeated!"

Liu Tai nodded and prepared to attack during the day. Apart from fear of long days and long dreams, the most important thing was that he hoped to maximize the effect of the sand he had placed in Gou Xi's army.

After all, they know about their attack at night, which is a completely different concept than seeing them leading the army to fight during the day.

Those soldiers who had been captured by him would definitely have a shadow in their hearts as long as they were defeated once.

At the same time, they know the treatment of becoming their own prisoners, so their fighting will is definitely not high.

To put it simply, they would die on the battlefield if they fought against them. They knew their own frontal combat effectiveness.

In addition, if you are captured, you can easily enjoy the treatment of a prisoner, or even if Liu Tai will show kindness again and let him go in the future?
Therefore, as long as they see themselves, their fighting spirit will definitely be weakened.

It was difficult to explain these things clearly to Xi Jian directly, so Liu Tai didn't bother to explain them in detail.

"The next step is to wait for the soldiers to rest and launch an attack on Gou Xi's camp!" Liu Tai couldn't help but think.

"Why do I feel a chill?" Gou Xi raised her head and looked around in confusion. She didn't know why she always felt a cool breeze blowing, which made her heart feel chilly, and her eyelids couldn't help but beat. .

"Sizu, go to Xintai and see if Yu Yao has done anything extra!" Gou Xi said to Shao Xu.

"No!" Shao Xu didn't expect that Gou Xi would suddenly give him this order, but he only went outside the camp to inspect Xintai. Shao Xu didn't think much about it, just thinking that Gou Xi was being cautious.

And Gou Xi didn't know why she suddenly panicked, as if she was missing something, but after thinking about it, she couldn't figure out what went wrong with her arrangement!

After all, any normal general would not think that he could safely deliver food on the way back, but he would actually ambush an army and prepare to break into the camp directly. This is completely in the blind spot of thinking.

If anyone could detect Liu Tai and their army, it would only require a white eye in his eye socket.

However, as a veteran in the army, although his reason told him that there was really no problem now, due to his own intuition, Gou Xi would always feel a little uneasy, which made Gou Xi quite confused.

Soon Shao Xu came over to report back to Gou Xi. Yu Yao made no extra moves and still stood firm in the city, which made Gou Xi feel relieved.

Thinking that he was overthinking this matter, he continued to open the surrounding maps, thinking about where to attack Xintai.

Not long after, Gou Xi suddenly heard a killing cry coming from behind his military camp, which made Gou Xi break into a cold sweat!
"Put on armor for me!" Gou Xi was shocked and immediately ordered his attendant to put on armor for him.

After hearing Gou Xi's order, although the attendants were panicked and even the hands holding Gou Xi's armor were shaking, they still quickly put on Gou Xi's armor. After Gou Xi finished putting on the armor, he walked out of the military camp. It was already a mess outside.

Gou Xi didn't understand that even though he didn't have any defensive facilities in the rear camp, he was very strict in running the army. Who could actually kill everyone in the middle camp in such a short period of time? !

"General Gou, do you still recognize Qingzhou Liu Tai?" At this moment, Liu Tai was riding on his horse and happened to see Gou Xi coming out of the military camp. His eyes seemed to be filled with joy at seeing the BOSS, and he couldn't help but let out a loud roar. .

"Liu Tai?! Why are you here!" Gou Xi couldn't help but feel heartbroken when he saw Liu Tai actually appearing in front of him, because he naturally knew where the biggest weakness of his army was, and it was Liu Tai!
The personal guards around Liu Tai were following Liu Tai closely at this moment, protecting Liu Tai as he moved forward.

As Liu Tai's personal bodyguards, they feel that they are the luckiest, because the generals they need to protect with their lives are invincible. Only Liu Xia among Liu Tai's men can face him head-on. Fight.

But at the same time, they are also the most unlucky, because Liu Tai really charges on the battlefield without caring about himself at all. Every place he goes to is often the opponent's key point, but it is also the place with the most enemy personnel.

"Those who surrender will be spared death, and prisoners will be treated preferentially. Don't come here to die in vain. Stop me from capturing Gou Xi!" Liu Tai shouted loudly!
After hearing Liu Tai's words, all Gou Xi's soldiers were shocked.

Some new recruits wanted to go over to defend Gou Xi, but those veterans who had been defeated by Liu Tai decisively grabbed the young recruits who were about to rush over and said, "Form a round formation, don't show off! "

When these recruits heard this, they looked at their immediate superiors like traitors.

The veteran said solemnly, "Don't talk nonsense. If you want to live, just listen to me!"

That's Duke Liu. How many lives do you have? You want to go up and fight with this Duke face to face! "

"What about... General Gou?" The recruit murmured a little after listening to the veteran's words.

"Didn't the Duke say we should capture him? The general will not die!

When Duke Liu spared the general's life, the general turned around and attacked Duke Liu. Today's disaster is naturally the general's fault! "

The veteran continued, "Furthermore, the fight between these upper-class people has nothing to do with us small soldiers.

The most correct thing is to save your life on the battlefield. Duke Liu will not make things difficult for us!

Fighting against Duke Liu's army, as long as no one is killed, it doesn't matter if he becomes a prisoner of Duke Liu.

But you are going to be killed on the battlefield, but you don’t even have the reason to say anything. Our general only cares about a few mouthfuls of food. What are you doing with your life? "

"Uh...oh!" Faced with the earnest teachings of his corps commander and even the village commander, even Gou Xi couldn't help but hesitate a little when recruiting new soldiers.

It is simply unrealistic for soldiers with such weak will to stop Liu Tai.

In Gou Xi's desperate eyes, Liu Tai rushed directly in front of Gou Xi and punched him in the abdomen.

Although he didn't vomit blood, he also vomited gastric juice, which made him dizzy and made him feel miserable.

Liu Tai knew that when he rushed into Gou Xi's military camp in broad daylight, the soldiers in the whole camp would not have high will to resist at all.

After all, do they have fields, do they have women? It’s just for Gou Xi, why are you playing with your life?
Liu Tai said, "Surrender and avoid death. Whoever stayed in my prisoner camp before? Please understand the rules. Help me settle down in the military camp and treat it as a prisoner camp. I will send someone to Xintai to say hello. Today we Eat beef!”

"I understand, I understand, Duke Liu, don't worry, we understand the rules!" Those veterans from the middle and lower classes surrendered quickly, and all the weapons in their hands were thrown to the ground with a clatter.

Soon the new recruits in Gou Xi's army suddenly discovered that the seniors they had thought of before had become so useless.

From a soldier under Gou Xi's command to a steward of Liu Tai's prison camp, there was no trace of the identity switch.

Soon, Yu Yao, who was in disbelief, sent over a dozen cows that had fallen to death because their left foot tripped over their right foot.

This made all the recruits feel that after seeing that they actually got a piece of beef and a bowl of fragrant beef bone soup for dinner today, this is God.

Who is Gou Xi?do not recognize!
(End of this chapter)